Kevin DeYoung – Queensland Together for the Gospel

The Day Jesus Said “I’ve Got This”

I can, by nature, be a graceless man. I slip all too easily into either a snakes-and-ladders works-based righteousness: up when I’m doing well; down when I’m not. Sometimes I fail to extend grace to other people. With my bent towards being a chippy so-and-so, and my—how shall we put it—“exuberant” personality, I am far too prone to cut someone down with a smart comment. Which is why I’m grateful for the grace expressed down the years by my mother, who, as I have written about in an earlier post, experienced the trauma of being torn from a loving foster family...